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United States courts In patent cases and to
protect persons who, without notice, are
bona fide manufacturers, purchasers,
Yenders, and users Of patented articles.

protect persons who, without notice, are
bona fide manufacturers, purchasers,
venders, and users Of patented articles.
The motion was lost-yeas so, nays 1856.
Mr.. Matson, Of Indiana, OH behalf Of the
committee on invalid pensions, moved to
suspend the rules and pass the bill for the
relief OF dependent parents and bOnorably
discharged soldiers and sailors who are now
disabled and dependent upon their own
labor for support.
Mr.. Matson stated that the first section
OF the bill merely changed the evidence re-
quired by the pension Office, and would not
cost the government more than $4,000 au-
nually. The total number Of peraons who
would be benefited by the second section
was estimated at 33,105, and the annual
cost to the government would not reach
100000
Mr.. Warren, of Ohio, while not opposing
the bill, criticized 1t as departure from the
principle that pensions were designed to be
compensation for disabilities This bill was
rather pauper bill than pension bill.
Mr.. Blount, OF Georgia, thought that the
House should pause before 1t passed a meas
ure which would place an unknown burden
upon the people who paid the taxes, for the
facts upon which the committee based its
estimate Of cost to the government were
very meager.
40 pcinS ueCiaiaIiou tnuI ho oiu soiuier
who followed the flag should end his days
In the poorhouse.
Mr.. Springer, Of Illinois, favored the bill
as a fair and conservative measure. In an
swer to the objection that the estimates as
to the amount which would be required to
meet It's provisions were not reliable, he as
serted that, while no estimates could be alb
solntely correct, those which fixed the cost
to the government at Sc, ,000, 900 were as re-
liable as 1t was possible to make them.
But, whether they were correct or not, he
advocated the bill on the ground that 1t
would afford more relief to worthy soldiers
In proportion to the amount involved than
any other measure Congress had passed on
the subject Of pensions.
The bill was then passed-yeas 10,
nays 76.
Mr.. Eldredge, of Michigan, on behalf of
the committee on pensions, moved that the
rules be suspended and the House concur
in the Senate amendment to the Mexican
pension bill.
Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, in opposing the
bill because 1t proposed service pension,
gave his reasons for voting against the bill
which the House had just passed, which,
he thought, should be entitled bill "To
pension the rubbish of the United States
and to revive the business Of claim agents
in Washington It covered every substi-
tute, every bounty-jumper, and every scala
wag that went into the srmy.
The motion to suspend the rules and con.
cur in the Senate amendment was agreed
to--yeas 243, nays 5.
The bill now only requires the presiden-
tial approval to become law.
II provides that pension Of $8 q month
shall be paid to all surviving officers and
enlisted meu, including marines, militia,
and volunteers, of the military and naval
services of the United States, who, being
duly enlisted, actually served sixty days
with the army or navy OF the United States
In Mexico, or on the coasts or frontier
thereof, or en- route thereto, In the war with
that nation, or were actually engaged In
battle in said war, and were honorably dis
charged, and to such other officers and sol
diers and sailors as may have been person.
ally named In any resolution OF Congress
for any specific service In said war, and the
surviving widow OF such officers and en-
listed men; provided, that such widows
have not remarked; provided, that every
such officer, enlisted man, or widow, who
is or who may become G2 years OF age, or
who 10 or may become subject TO any dlsa-
bility or dependency equivalent to some
cause prescribed or recognized by the PEN
sion laws Of the United States as a sufficient
reason for the allowance OF a'penslon, shall
be entitled to the benefits OF this act, but 1t
shall not be held to include any person not
within the rule Of age or disability or de-
pendency herein defined, or who incurred
such disability while in any manner yolun-
tarlly engaged In or aiding or abettlng the
late rebellion against the authority OF the
United States.
Section 47lG, Revised Statutes, is repealed
so far as 1t relates to this act or TO pen
sioners under this act,
Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, on behalf of the
committee on claims, moved to suspend the
rules and pass with amendments the Senate